Comparison between tillage transect and supplementary data

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Comparison between tillage transect and supplementary data. GLPF Grant- Team meeting #5 July 23-24, 2013. Tillage transects. Developed by NRCS and CTIC Record crop, tillage, and estimate residue cover along a road transect throughout the Sandusky River Watershed - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Comparison between tillage transect and supplementary data

GLPF Grant- Team meeting #5July 23-24, 2013

Tillage transects• Developed by NRCS and CTIC

• Record crop, tillage, and estimate residue cover along a road transect throughout the Sandusky River Watershed Seneca, Sandusky, Crawford,

and Wyandot Counties Also used throughout the

Maumee Watershed

• Transects conducted 2x a year (spring and fall) since 2009

• Each transect revisits the exact same GPS coordinates

Dominant crops

Corn Soybean Wheat Hay Other CRP

Across years Corn Soybean Wheat Hay Other CRP

Transect 35% 45% 14% 2.6% 1.5% 1.4%

P strat 36% 39% 22% 1.8% 1.5% n/a

Spring Fall P strat.

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Corn

• Note: cover and vertical till was not recorded until 2011, zeroes in 2009-2010 doesn’t mean it wasn’t there

No Till Cover Vertical Mulch (>30% residue)Strip (>30% residue) Reduced (15-30% residue) Conventional (plow or <15% residue)

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74% 64% 52% 78%

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25%18%

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Corn Soybean Wheat Hay Other

Crop planted next

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Soybean

• Note: cover and vertical till was not recorded until 2011, zeroes in 2009-2010 doesn’t mean it wasn’t there

No Till Cover Vertical Mulch (>30% residue)Strip (>30% residue) Reduced (15-30% residue) Conventional (plow or <15% residue)

Corn Soybean Wheat Hay Other

Crop planted next2009 2010 2011 2012

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14%19%

60% 64% 59% 75%51%

26%

28%

Spring Fall

34%26%

19%11%

21%17%

14%11%10%

11%23%

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Wheat

• Note: cover and vertical till was not recorded until 2011, zeroes in 2009-2010 doesn’t mean it wasn’t there

No Till Cover Vertical Mulch (>30% residue)Strip (>30% residue) Reduced (15-30% residue) Conventional (plow or <15% residue)

Corn Soybean Wheat Hay Other

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27% 14% 21% 78%99% 92%

Spring Fall8%

51%

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33%

7%12% 10% 12% 13%

Crop rotation compared with Supplementary data

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After corn: After soybean: After wheat:

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Tillage practices compared with supplementary data

• Results are very similar for the tillage transect and supplementary data

No Till/Strip Mulch/Vertical Reduced/Plow

Corn Soybean Wheat

67%

77% 70%

14% 14% 32% 20%

68% 47% 69%83% 86% 34%

41%

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